Which injection molding machine is the right one for which application? Below we will demonstrate why performance is not always performance, but physics is always physics.

Direct drives such as planetary roller screw drives are very precise and durable

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How Feed Rate, Injection Volume and Filling Time Correlate with Injection Unit Performance

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Kugelgewindetriebe

Maschinenelemente

Getriebe

Spritzgießsimulation

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Schnecken und Plastifiziersysteme

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Spritzgießmaschinen

Elektrische Antriebe für Spritzgießmaschinen

Antriebe

Elektrische Antriebe

Elektromechanische Maschinen

A Question of Class

At Fakuma 2021, iQ Weight Control will be unveiled with its new interface and expanded functionality. The new developments have been driven by feedback from customers. With its consistently user-centered development approach, Engel is one of the pioneers.

The new release of iQ weight control is based on feedback from users. In the user-centered development process, Engel closely involves its customers at all stages

The Assistance System iQ Weight Control Promises Greater Clarity and New Functions

Steuern, Regeln

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Produktentwicklung(sprozess)

Qualitätsmanagement

Focusing on the User

The ninth broadcast by arburgXvision was about strategies for significantly increasing the utilization rate of injection molding machines.

Moderator Guido Marschall and Arburg experts Christian Homp and Christoph Blöchle (from right) discussed how the right mold strategy pays off for injection molding companies

Automatisierungstechnik

“Mold Strategy 2.0 – New Ideas for Reducing Costs”

New date for the industry event is June 22th to 25th, 2022.

Safety first: to ensure that guests from all over the world can meet at the Technology Days (the picture shows the 2019 event) as carefree as possible, Arburg has postponed the date

Arburg Technology Days 2022 Will Take Place in June

Arburg will be showing the hybrid high-performance Hidrive series on its stand no. 21B25 in Hall 2, with an Allrounder 520 H producing 32 pipette tips in around 6 s cycle time.

The hybrid Allrounder 520 H on show at Interplastica is equipped with a 32-cavity mold and produces pipette tips in a cycle time of around 6 s.

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

High-Tech for Medical Technology

From 25 to 28 January, the OOO Engel team presents its booth in Moscow again. The injection molding machine manufacturer and system solution provider headquartered in Austria is making the huge potential of digital solutions tangible by producing technical parts live on a tie-bar-less victory injection molding machine.

Engel victory injection molding machines with tie-bar-less clamping units.

The Benefits of Tie-Bar-Less Technology

The product portfolio of Wittmann and Wittmann Battenfeld will in future be presented under the uniform Wittmann brand name. This reflects the company’s claim to be a provider of total solutions for injection molders.

Michael Wittmann, Managing Director and CEO of the Wittmann Group. The group operates eight production plants in five countries, and the additional sales companies at their 34 different locations are present in all major industrial markets around the world.

Unternehmen

kunststoffe.de

Wittmann Group Changes Its Brand Strategy

Paul Caprio has left Engel North America effective January 31st, 2022. Now the company presents the new management board.

Engel North America Management Board (left to right): Johann Dastl (CFO), Vanessa Malena (COO), Benjamin Lettner (CSO), Mark Sankovitch (CEO).

New Management Board at Engel North America

In the past, relying on vertical injection molding machines instead of traditional horizontal molding machines when it came to the production of 2-component molded parts was a common option for molding small and medium-sized parts but not for large size parts. But when the automotive supplier Eldisy was faced with parts in that segment horizontal injection molding machines proved to be an inaptly alternative as new vertical machine systems proved as more reliable and therefore more productive. In the Bavarian injection molding machine manufacturer LWB-Steinl, the company found a partner to enter this new territory.

A vertical gantry frame machine with two thermoplastic injection units injecting from above proves to be a “gamechanger” for the production of 2-component automotive components at Eldisy in the German Gardelegen.

Eldisy Switches to Vertical Machines for the Production of Large-Size 2-Components

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

KFZ-Zulieferer

Dienstleistungen

With a System Change  to New Competitiveness

Engel has developed a new way to process plastic scrap as flakes on an injection molding machine straight after grinding. This innovation eliminates the pelletization step and significantly boosts the economics of plastics recycling. The key to consistently high product quality is to vent the plastic melt.

Test setup at the pilot plant in St. Valentin, Austria: for the two-stage process, Engel has combined a plasticizing screw with an injection screw.

Venting in a Two-Stage Process Boosts the Efficiency of Recycling Processes

Schmelzefilter

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kreislaufwirtschaft

High-Quality Recycled Plastics Obtained Directly from Flakes

Guido Frohnhaus has been Managing Director Technology & Engineering at Arburg for a good two years now. The pandemic restrictions meant that he has made very few appearances outside the company so far, but, as he says himself, he spent the time getting to know the in-house processes at all levels and in great detail. In this interview with Kunststoffe, the 52-year-old talks about the course he plans to set and how crucial the high level of in-house manufacturing and programming expertise is for the company’s independence.

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

“Gestica Will Be the Fixed Star in the Customer’s Universe”

Arburg presents a total of four Allrounder exhibits and two Freeformers on show. All machines will be connected live to the Arburg host computer system ALS for demonstration purposes and to the arburgXworld customer portal, another focus of the trade fair display. Detailed information on the arburgGreenworld environmental and recycling program will round off Arburg‘s involvement in Chinaplas.

Arburg will be demonstrating the potential of freeformers for additive manufacturing on two exhibits at Chinaplas 2022.

Arburg Kunststoff Freiformen

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

Freiraumverfahren

High-End Wherever You Look

Thin wall packaging manufacturers think in terms of efficiency gains in tenths of a second. Every cycle time reduction leads to increased productivity. Another factor influencing part costs is the energy efficiency of the production equipment. In these two key dimensions, Netstal was able to optimize the smallest model in the Elios series with 4500 kN clamping force.

The optimized Elios 4500 with electrically operated toggle levers enables users to achieve cycle time reductions and savings in power consumption (the photo shows the previous variant).

Higher Output and Reduced Energy Consumption

Energieeffizienz

Clamping Unit of the Elios 4500 with Fully Electric Drive Concept

Flashing lights, injection molding machines and a fresh mind

A visit to Arburg in the North Black Forest.

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, andere

Anlagen für die Additive Fertigung

Schröder, Susanne

On the Spot at Arburg

Mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence and a spirit of optimism

Visit to Engel in Schwertberg / Upper Austria.

Verpackungstechnik

Logistik

On the Spot at Engel

Mobile Injection Molding Complements Large-Volume 3D Printing

How in-process or downstream injection molding improves the quality of high-volume 3D-printed parts.

In recent years, a number of companies have jumped on the train of large-scale 3D printing based on plastic pellets, which is why the applications for realizing technical components are also increasing rapidly. This production technology is known as large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM). From established injection molding and special machine manufacturers to startups, a variety of different LSAM printers are offered using gantry systems or robotics.

These printers are characterized by high output rates of 10 to 30 kg/h and the processing of common thermoplastics. However, the high output rate goes hand in hand with the fact that the detail accuracy of the components, as known from injection molding, for example, has its limits. Currently, the molded parts are often reworked in the milling process, for example, to smooth the characteristic surface of 3D printed structures and to create precisely fitting functional surfaces.

The mobile injection molding system “Robin“ of Anybrid GmbH now offers a new alternative of process-integrated or downstream functionalization of 3D-printed components. Due to the unique possibility of the Robin system to mount it on classical industrial robotics, it is possible to integrate it directly into the LSAM production cell in order to inject functionalizations locally onto the components. In initial trials in cooperation with the Institute for Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology at TU Dresden, the proof of concept was successfully carried out. After brief surface heating, additively manufactured plates were locally compacted and formed by applying the clamping force. In this way, the sealing of the mold cavity can be ensured for the subsequent overmolding process.

TU Dresden - Institut für Leichtbau u. Kunststofftechnik 

ANYBRID GmbH  

https://www.anybrid.de

The mobile injection molding „Robin“ can be used as a supplement to large-volume 3D printing.

Overmolding of the 3D printed structures (top); comparison of the 3D printed and the compacted surface (bottom left); overmolded rib structure (bottom right).

Interaktionen der aufgespritzten Polymermatrix mit dem gedruckten LSAM-Halbzeug.

2023-01-30 Anybrid TT

Anybrid macht Spritzgießmaschinen leicht, mobil und flexibel

Im Januar 2022 hat die Kunststoffe die Anybrid GmbH zum Start-up des Monats gekürt und ein Interview mit den Gründern des Unternehmens geführt. Ihre Überzeugung: <a href="https://www.kunststoffe.de/a/interview/das-mobile-spritzgiessen-braucht-zeit-zu-3279575" target="_blank">Das mobile Spritzgießen isteine Technologie mit viel Potenzial.</a>

„Wir gehen fest davon aus, dass großvolumige 3D-Druck Anlagen in der Zukunft standardmäßig mit unserem mobilen Spritzgießsystem ausgestattet sind.“

Michael Stegelmann, Geschäftsführer Anybrid

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